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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Rental Software?
Message-ID: <11783@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-May-86 15:07:07 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 24 15:07:07 1986
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In article <422@ccird1.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>
>My guess is that many large companies wish to stay clear of anything even
>resembling "royalties", because contributing authors might decide they
>want some "royalties" too.

In addition, royalties fall under a bad tax bracket, so lots of companies
don't want anything to do with them.  There were some companies here who
had operated at a virtual loss for several years who found themselves with
large tax bills from Uncle Sam, because all the royalties they had received
were revenue, but all their expenses could not be charged against this revenue
because it was royaly (or unearned income). Bummer!

Pleas excuse any garbling of the legal cause and effect above. I am trying
to describe the contents of several local newspaper reports.

-- 
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